Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 24, 2024

The Alabama Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) held its 2024 Annual Meeting and Scientific Symposium from June 20 to June 23 at the beautiful Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort. She operates Anderson Family Care in Demopolis, Alabama, where she combines her role as a physician with the responsibilities of ownership.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. She directs UCSF MERI’s patient, family, and clinician support with classes and consultation on resiliency, well-being, and grief. Alex: First three words would be, family and history and diversity. Anne: Is there a movement? I love them.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 12, 2023

” Somehow, there’s this signal that the patients and families had to pick up that maybe the surgeon wasn’t so enthusiastic, or if I just dump risk on them, maybe they’ll say, “I don’t want this.” What I need to navigate with that patient and their family, is it valuable to you? Every time.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

And so they can go to frankaustdeseski.com or mettainstitute.org and find out about upcoming workshops and that sorts of thing. And I think up until the time when my aunt was passing, I had been very afraid of the idea of death in my family. It’s put its emphasis much more on educational work, which is fantastic.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And then we started pushing a lot more surveys electronically to patients, which, of course, has its challenges, because not everyone’s as tech savvy as, you know, our highly educated patients who have access to technology. So I don’t know how clinically meaningful that week difference was to families. Is that fair to say?

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GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

We focus on function and mortality because these are outcomes that really are important to patients and families. So there may be a reason that the the social safety net plays a role in preventing the negative effect of a negative workshop. Lauren 19:01 Yeah, so in our second paper, we asked that exact question. What is your function?

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality. Links to Redwing’s poetry workshops: Food for Thought Poetry for Resiliency. She’s a palliative care nurse educator and a writer, and she’s joining us from the great state of Hawaii.

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